Samuel Freeman Miller

“ The circumstance that in the emolument account of the clerk the auditor allows him to deduct, from the fees which he would otherwise pay into the treasury, the deputy's compensation, does not make him an employ e of the department. All claims paid out of the treasury of the United States must be audited by one of its officers, and approved by one of the comptrollers ”

“ Mulloy, the crier, and Taylor and Grimes, the messengers, were employees of the court,-the first appointed by the court and the others by the marshal, to perform services immediately in connection with the court and its judges; and, if employees of the government at all, they certainly belong to the judicial department, and not to the executive. ”